<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>New research focused on finding ancient squid beaks to understand squid evolution due to the lack of squid fossils with hard shells.</li><li>An advanced fossil discovery technique digitized Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, leading to the identification of 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks, including 263 squid specimens and 40 previously unknown squid species.</li><li>The number of squid fossils found surpassed bony fishes and ammonites in the rocks, indicating a dominance of squid specimens in the Late Cretaceous oceans.</li></ul>

Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous

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